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Film provided a convenient way of recording moving pictures. However, with the rise of television it was not very satisfactory to convert the TV images to film, which required the time-consuming business of processing it. To regenerate television pictures required a further conversion back from the film. This was not something that could be done quickly; it produced poor quality pictures, and was inconvenient for regular use.
Wouldn’t it be nice if our lives were like VCRs, and we could fast forward through the crummy times?
Charles M Schulz, ‘Peanuts’
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Williams, J.B. (2017). Saving TV Programmes: Video Recording. In: The Electronics Revolution. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49088-5_25
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